Archaeologists Just Found Something Incredible in Peru

Archaeologists have just made a stunning discovery. A previously unknown, 3,500-year-old city called Penico, hidden in Peru.

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But while this one site may not rewrite history on its own…It’s part of a much bigger pattern that absolutely could. Because what we’re seeing is a more advanced, more interconnected more ancient South America than we ever imagined. And that impacts everything we think we know, about early civilisation...

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Sources:

Penico

https://www.reuters.com/science/archaeologists-peru-unveil-3500-year-old-city-that-linked-coast-andes-2025-07-03/?utm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unveil-a-3500-year-old-city-in-peru-that-sheds-light-on-the-caral-culture-180986944/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07dmx38kyeo

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a65333215/penico-peru-caral/?utm

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/penico-ancient-city-peru-0022249?utm

https://www.the-sun.com/news/14641735/peru-lost-city-oldest-civilization-penico/?utm

https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/archaeology/peru-lost-city-penico-south-america-archaeology-b2783723.html?utm

Caral-Supe

https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/caral_supe?utm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caral%E2%80%93Supe_civilization

https://www.zonacaral.gob.pe/downloads/publicaciones/the-social-and-cultural-values-of-caral-supe-2008-ingles.pdf?utm

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pyramids-of-caral-supe-peru

https://prateekdg.substack.com/p/caral-supe-the-pyramid-builders-as?utm

Amazon Rainforest

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/brazil-amazon-discoveries-archaeology-lidar/?utm

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/amazon-earthworks/?utm

https://archaeologymag.com/2024/01/laser-scans-reveal-ancient-cities-hidden-deep-in-the-amazon-rainforest/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/?utm

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-ancient-places-americas/amazon-lidar-0021903?utm

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/amazon-earthworks-0019522?utm
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/lost-mega-cities-amazon?utm

https://www.xyht.com/pressreleases/lidar-uncovers-massive-ancient-city-in-amazon/?utm

Terra Preta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta?utm

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/06/ancient-garden-cities-amazon-indigenous-technologies-archaeology-lost-civilisations-environment-terra-preta?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.science.org/content/article/searching-amazons-hidden-civilizations?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_agriculture_in_the_Amazon_Basin?utm

Development of Agriculture/Climate

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/development-agriculture

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268115001985?utm

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/omoav/mmnp9_1_2018.pdf?utm

https://www.wired.com/2007/06/the-birth-of-ag/?utm

Earlier Agriculture

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150722144709.htm?utm

https://phys.org/news/2013-03-stones-ice-age-birth-agriculture.html?utm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440314003689?utm

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27880839/

Other

https://archpress.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/archpress/catalog/download/41/13/575?inline=1&utm

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/674535?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09596836221131698?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.goshen.edu/peru/2013/10/15/exploring-the-oldest-civilization-in-the-americas/#:~:text=Evidence%20was%20found%20indicating%20that,into%20a%20stone%20at%20Caral.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/aboriginal-star-maps

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